Quote (NinjaSushi2 @ Aug 7 2014 04:00am)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvbKafw2g0
That's a mix of the old Michelson-Morley experiment and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance"
The Michelson-Morley experiment shot a light wave, rather than a single photon at a time at a 2 slit card, and it produced a wave form on the detector.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, says: The position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrarily high precision.
Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance" which was how he tried to explain how an "entangled pair of electrons" (for example) could be separated by a huge distance and then what was done to one, happened to the other...instantaneously.
In that video above...when the move the detector to the sides of the slits....they enact the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and in doing so, get results like the Michelson-Morley experiment, and then when they move the detectors away again, they get Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance"
So I guess back when all this was all being figured out...they chose to come up with a shorter name than: The Michelson-Morley-Heisenberg uncertainty principle-Spooky Action at a Distance-Theory....and just decided to call it: Quantum Mechanics. This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 7 2014 03:10am